Hello Planet,
I’m proud to announce the new print-manager release, this release includes many bug fixes and improvements 😛
With this release I plan to get it included into KDE 4.10, a review request have been already filled.
The fixes include:
- Proper handling CUPS DBus subscriptions
- Fixing PPD selection from new/current printers
- Some fixes on the KDED module
- Fix print-queue widget interface
The improvements:
- Show a spin cursor on the add printer wizard so you know when it’s “working”
- Do an automatic PPD selection in case a recommended driver is found
- Show a KMessageWidget to display an error in case s-c-p-dbus didn’t work as expected
- Add a check box to reject jobs for a given printer
- Add support for CUPS 1.6 (by using a build flag)
I’m happy to see that most distros are starting to package it, Arch, openSUSE, Fedora and Kubuntu all seem to have it for testing, which means I’ve been fixing some bugs they have reported 🙂
Since people like screen shots:
The download will soon be available at:
http://download.kde.org/stable/print-manager/0.2.0/src/print-manager-0.2.0.tar.bz2.mirrorlist (UPDATE: URL is fixed now)
Have fun!
Dantti's Blog 
Great work dantti, we hope to have it included in the next Fedora
thanks looking forward to this 🙂
Fantastic, I will test it when I get around to it. Thanks 🙂
Excellent, checking it out now
thanks!
Great work!
Great, but for the error shown above could you try to provide a better error message? Assuming this is not just a fake error…
I can’t that’s all DBus gives me, that should be enough to know that s-c-p-dbus interface failed
(From my armchair, of course) maybe some work ought to be done on system-config-printer to report more sensible errors, in that case.
Yes, probably, in this case python crashed failing to import gtk (which should be patched not to need it in the first place)
Hi, have installed version 0.2 in Chakra. When I click “Add Printer” button, the next dialog “Add a New Printer” shows the message:
Failed to group devices: ‘The name org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing was not provided by any .service files’
Is it normal. How to eventually fix it?
Thanks
you need to install system-config-printer it provides some smartness to print-manager, though you can safely be without it.
It is already installed…
Thank you for your work. Will it be possible to create profiels like in KDE 3 where you could have kind of two printers with different default settings, e.g. one for normal printing and one for double side / 2 pages on on one ….
Well you can do this by actually adding the same printer twice and changing it’s options 🙂
Hi, the app looks really cool, but you should’ve announced your plan on kde-i18n-dockde.org so we would prepare translations before you released it. I updated the czech almost to 100% just when looked on it for 20 minutes and bet other translators would do the same so users of your app would enjoy it in native language. We translators mostly do not track playground folders unless notified.
We are moving out of playground so this will help, also the messages.sh wasn’t extracting everything, so I’ll probably do another release when it has moved out of playground, then I let translators know.. Thanks
I like very much Your works for KDE, especially Print Manager and colord-kde.
I want to help Your work but, I’m sorry, I’m not able do write code and also I have some difficulties to test because I’m not so able to compile etc. ; I can make for You the Italian translations and write documents in Italian.
My hope is also to have the possibility to give You some suggestions….
How can I contact You?
Best regards
Sure, just send me an email, for translations you should talk to KDE translation team.
Best
Ok, but at least what is Your e-mail ?
dantti12 at G mail 😛 (you can also find it on the sources)
Thanks for the great work! I have noticed a couple of bugs, the first of which I have submitted to bugs.kde.org #308314. Hopefully you should be able to easily reproduce it and likewise fix it.
The other thing that I have been playing and mainly what I am interested in is the DNSSD stuff (you commented that it needs testing!). For testing I am using Kubuntu 12.10 beta 2 (CUPS 1.6.1) inside a VMWare VM on a Mac OS X 10.7.5 (CUPS 1.5.4) host. First I didn’t think that it worked at all even after playing with if for hours but I feel asleep and woke up and my shared printer from my Mac appeared in the New Printer Wizard. I can see the DNSSD advertisements on both sides fine (I have a printer being shared both ways) using Bonjour Browser on the Mac and avahi-browse on the Linux side – they re-advertise every few minutes, but what ever is doing the browsing for your wizard doesn’t seem to be picking up the advertisements from my Mac reliably.
I have tried to follow your code but there seems to be multiple layers in this cake. I don’t understand how your software links into s-c-p, I’ll try and do some more reading of your code later to understand how it all fits together.
Would it be viable to have to just have a local DNSSD browse process running (using the KDE API) and use https://developer.apple.com/bonjour/printing-specification/bonjourprinting-1.0.2.pdf to automagically do driver selection and add the printers particulars ?
The biggest problem is that avahi browsing seems to be removed from cups 1.6, so it seems now that i’ll need to do the browsing using avahi on the add printer ui directly. Afaik s-c-p doesn’t have the feature yet too…
First of all thank you for print-manager, another missing part in KDE filled…
Are you planning to integrate ink level monitor in print-manager? It would be nice to have it there at least in the plasmoid. There is libinklevel library ( http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net/ ) and also a Qt frontend for it ( https://launchpad.net/qink ).
Keep up the good work!
You’re welcome.
and sorry but no, I won’t integrate libinklevel into print-manager. The reason is simple, it’s the wrong place to do the integration, the right place is at the printer drivers that CUPS use. Print-manager already shows ink levels for printers integrated “the right way”.
As you can see from http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.6/spec-ipp.html#marker-types there is already a CUPS specification for that and printer manager follows that already, see https://dantti.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/imagem5.png?w=300&h=142 tho it’s now integrated into the main UI 🙂
Best.
These are great news. I did not knew that CUPS has specification for that… It would be nice to have ink levels displayed next to the printer in the fancy plasmoid… Thanks! 🙂